At the recent Book Expo, Recess! correspondent Susan Raab spoke with the distinguished author of works for young people, E. L. Konigsburg about her new novel, The Mysterious…
At the Bologna International Children’s Book Fair this past spring, Susan Raab spoke with Patsy Aldana from Canada, the current president of the International Board…
Earlier this spring, Susan Raab spoke with Margaret Quinlan, the President of Peachtree Press in Atlanta about a number of their books, both fiction and…
In 1972, Farley Drexel Hatcher, more commonly known as Fudge, burst onto the pages of Judy Blume’s Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, and nothing has…
Rudyard Kipling is much more than the author of the Jungle Book, which, no children, did NOT begin life as a cartoon. Unfortunately, most people don’t…
Recently, Susan Raab spoke with Heidi Cortner Boiesen, the Director for the International Board of Books for Young People’s Documentation Center of Books for Disabled…
One of the more amazing stories to come out of our town, Gainesville, Florida, this past year is the publication of the first novel in…
In her most celebrated work, 84, Charing Cross Road, Helene Hanff acknowledges the gift of a book, noting, “I’ll have mine till the day I die…
At the annual Bologna International Children’s Book Festival this past spring, Recess! correspondent Susan Raab talked to Judy Galbraith, the president and founder of Free Spirit Books.…
Emily Bronté wrote just one novel in her relatively short life, Wuthering Heights. But what a novel it was, and its impassioned, romantic reach has extended…